The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes.… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Sometime in the early 1920s, Keynes outlined a book he planned to call “Essays on the Economic Future of the World” (figure… — David Roth Singerman Copy Share Image
I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
Such compression of large amounts of information into a few exformation-rich macrostates with small quantities of nominal information are not only intelligent:… — Tor Nørretranders Copy Share Image
You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there… — John Peter Altgeld Copy Share Image
Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good,… — Bruce Mau Copy Share Image
Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type… — Jim Dunnigan Copy Share Image
Because the one who by excellency of nature transcends all quantity and size and magnitude...has now...contracted himself into a quantity and size… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Ten decimal places of π are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow. — Alan Chadwick Copy Share Image
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the… — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The more love we give away, the more we have left. The laws of love differ from the laws of arithmetic. Love… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
